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Direct linkCai, Yuyang; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This study examined the separability of domain-general and domain-specific content knowledge from Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) reading ability. A pool of 1,491 nursing students in China participated by responding to a nursing English test and a nursing knowledge test. Primary data analysis involved four steps: (a) conducting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Structural Equation Models, English for Special Purposes
Aryadoust, Vahid – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of the present study was twofold: (a) it examined the relationship between peer-rated likeability and peer-rated oral presentation skills of 96 student presenters enrolled in a science communication course, and (b) it investigated the relationship between student raters' severity in rating presenters' likeability and their severity in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Public Speaking, Peer Acceptance, Structural Equation Models
Zhang, Limei; Goh, Christine C. M.; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study investigates the relationships between test takers' metacognitive and cognitive strategy use through a questionnaire and their test performance on an English as a Foreign Language reading test. A total of 593 Chinese college test takers responded to a 38-item metacognitive and cognitive strategy questionnaire and a 50-item reading test.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Tests, Metacognition
Phakiti, Aek – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The current study explores the nature and relationships among test takers' performance appraisals, appraisal calibration, and reported cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in a language test situation. Performance appraisals are executive processes of strategic competence for judging test performance (e.g., evaluating the correctness or…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Wiseness, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods
Bae, Jungok; Bentler, Peter M.; Lee, Yae-Sheik – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
Content is related to other aspects of writing, but exactly how they are related has remained unclear or has not received sufficient critical attention. Consequently, in most writing assessments, content has been treated as just one among several relatively distinct but equal elements. However, in this study, the authors have quantified these…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Content Analysis, Writing Skills, Story Telling
Yang, Hui-Chun – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study explores the construct of a summarization test task by means of single-group and multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM). It examines the interrelationships between strategy use and performance, drawing on data from 298 Taiwanese undergraduates' summary essays and their self-reported strategy use. Single-group SEM analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Writing Skills, Language Tests
Xie, Qin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article reports an empirical study that examined the pattern of test preparation for College English Test Band 4 (CET4) and the differential effects of test preparation practices on its scores, thereby drawing implications for CET4 score validity. Data collection involved 1,003 test takers of CET4. A pretest was administered at the beginning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College English, Language Tests
Phakiti, Aek – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
This article reports on an empirical study that tests a fourth-order factor model of strategic competence through the use of structural equation modeling (SEM). The study examines the hierarchical relationship of strategic competence to (a) strategic knowledge of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in general (i.e., trait) and (b) strategic…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Learning Strategies
Song, Xiaomei; Cheng, Liying – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article examines language learner strategy use reported by 121 Chinese learners of English through a questionnaire and the relationships between their strategy use and language performance on a national English proficiency test: College English Test-Band 4. Results showed that this group of learners reported using more metacognitive…
Descriptors: College English, Achievement Tests, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
